Awaken Hope with Lynda Williams on The Beauty and the Hello of It
Awaken Hope with Lynda Williams on The Beauty and the Hello of It  
Podcast: Brushwood Media Network
Published On: Sat Dec 27 2025
Description: Lynda Williams is a short fiction writer based in Calgary/Treaty 7 Territory. Her work engages with themes of class, feminism, and mental illness. She describes her flavour as If-Raymond-Carver-Wrote-Feisty-Women. Lynda’s stories have appeared in Grain, The Humber Literary Review, oranges journal, HLR Spotlight, and on Room’s website. She has been a winner of the Edmonton Voices competition, the Reedsy Prompts Challenge, and has received honorable mentions in the Humber Literary Review’s and Room’s fiction contests. She is a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, and her debut collection of stories, The Beauty and the Hell of It is forthcoming from Guernica in September.  More information can be found at: Lynda Williams https://www.lyndawilliams.ca